yeme
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
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Etymology
From Middle English yemen, ȝemen (“to heed, pay attention, observe, keep”), from Old English ġīeman, from Proto-Germanic *gaumijaną (“to heed, notice, observe, keep”). Cognate with Icelandic geyma, Norwegian gjømme, Swedish gömma, Danish gemme, Faroese geymi, Alemannic German gaume, Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌿𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gaumjan). Doublet of gaum ("to understand, comprehend"), gorm (“to gape, gawk”), and goam (“to recognise, pay attention”), all from Middle English gome, from Old Norse gaum.
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Inflected Forms
yemes (present, singular)
yeming (participle, present)
yemed (participle, past)
yemed (past)